To: MindBender26
Let's just give the job to Burt Rutan. He would save tons of $$$ doing it.
13 posted on
07/27/2005 3:30:05 PM PDT by
Kevin OMalley
(No, not Freeper#95235, Freeper #1165: Charter member, What Was My Login Club.)
To: Kevin OMalley
Although I applaud Rutan's efforts and his team did a fantastic job with SpaceShipOne (SS1), it is a quantum leap between sending a pressurized capsule 100 kilometers into low space and putting a payload into space in low earth orbit.
Rutan may one day figure out how to capitalize on space tourism, but as far as heavy lift goes that takes a national effort, an enormous financial commitment and the kind of lift vehicle not seen since Nixon killed the Saturn V program.
Personally, I'm betting on the Chinese getting to the moon before we return. (Primarily because of their commitment to education over BS).
361 posted on
07/27/2005 5:50:58 PM PDT by
Archangelsk
(Handbasket, hell. Get used to the concept.)
To: Kevin OMalley; A. Pole; Destro; ninenot; oceanview; neutrino; snowsislander; Zartan
Another job American aren't "willing" to do. Just hire some Mexicans.
507 posted on
07/28/2005 8:41:02 AM PDT by
jb6
( Free Haghai Sophia! Crusade!)
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